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]]> Review7612743569 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:19:46 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph added 'Sex Goblin']]> /review/show/7612743569 Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook Joseph gave 5 stars to Sex Goblin (Kindle Edition) by Lauren Cook
“The woman before me in line said "I only came here for butter. I just ended up picking up so much other stuff."
The Aldi cashier says, "Don't worry I do that too." He asked me if I wanted my receipt and my brain lagged for a second and I said, "Yes, sorry, it took me a second to understand what you said."
He said,
"Don't worry I do that too."
I think he just sits here all day and tells people
"Don't worry. I do that too." ]]> Review7597127108 Sat, 31 May 2025 06:34:24 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph added 'Wolf Whistle']]> /review/show/7597127108 Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan Joseph has read Wolf Whistle (Hardcover) by Lewis Nordan
“The reporters said, "Amazing."
They wrote dispatches for their newspapers and magazines. They wrote that the scenery itself was hostile. The scenery is as oppressive as the moss that hangs from the cypress trees, they wrote. The silence is like taut skin, they wrote, and the faint heart startles, when that silence is cracked by the hiss of a suddenly opened Coke.
That's the way they wrote about Arrow Catcher, Missis-sippi. It was pure-dee poetic.
They shook their heads in disbelief at everything they
saw.� ]]> ReadStatus9487349198 Fri, 30 May 2025 10:06:35 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph is currently reading 'Sex Goblin']]> /review/show/7612743569 Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook Joseph is currently reading Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook
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“Rainy, chill, black & gray
Almost depressing day, day
To walk around, not work
Hands in my pockets looking
Down at my feet, maybe no
Me in me today� ]]> ReadStatus9464925190 Sat, 24 May 2025 21:16:53 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph is currently reading 'Wolf Whistle']]> /review/show/7597127108 Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan Joseph is currently reading Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan
]]> Review7581607479 Sat, 24 May 2025 18:34:16 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph added 'Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer']]> /review/show/7581607479 Friends in the World by Aram Saroyan Joseph gave 5 stars to Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer (Russian Biography Series; 10) by Aram Saroyan
]]> Review7566771596 Sun, 18 May 2025 16:26:42 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph added 'Memoir: 1960-1963']]> /review/show/7566771596 Memoir by Tony Towle Joseph gave 5 stars to Memoir: 1960-1963 (Paperback) by Tony Towle
“Up until that spring, I had always written the first drafts of my poems by hand (although I liked to see them neatly typed eventually). Partly this was due to the fact that my first thoughts were composed in coffee houses or parks - on the fly, as it were. Now that I had a more settled existence I very quickly got used to composing directly on the typewriter, scouring my imagination in the privacy of my own room rather than in public. It had very quickly come to pass that I couldn't "see" what I was working on very well unless it was typed. There was a purist idea around at this time that the handwritten line was "more authentic" than the impersonal, typed one. My rejoinder was that, from the 16 century on, if one's poetry was any good it was going to end up on the printed page anyway, so the typewriter was a provisional typesetter - you could see how your work was going to look.� ]]> Review7555129522 Tue, 13 May 2025 07:42:35 -0700 <![CDATA[Joseph added 'Ted']]> /review/show/7555129522 Ted by Ron Padgett Joseph gave 5 stars to Ted (Paperback) by Ron Padgett
“He should be buried at Springs, or in the Saint Mark’s churchyard, or in Providence. Or, rather, he shouldn’t be buried at all, at least in the way we think about him. He should be kept alive. Even in such a disloyal memoir as this!� ]]>